Over the first four months and six days of this year, 115 people have died in 22 mass killings an average of one mass killing a week. That includes the bloodshed Saturday at a Dallas-area mall where eight people were fatally shot.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reckons the US economy can skirt recession. But the odds are stacked against him thanks to banking, politics, and even the weather. In Powell’s view, the gravity-defying strength of American labor markets on display again in jobs data published Friday, which showed a bumper increase last month is smoothing…